With the recent surge in downloads for the newest Apple iOS jailbreak, Absinthe, we can’t help but be grateful that not only is jailbreaking possible, but that it is fully legal to do so (though it may, of course, void your warranty).

Remember the touchscreen computer in Minority Report? Well, it seems one savvy developer has managed to create something at least sort-of similar. This is the strange bastard child DDRBoxman, he combines a Microsoft Kinect, a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a computer, and a lot of mad scientist work.

While talking to your kids about the dangers of talking/texting while driving might help prevent this problem, it won’t in all cases. So what do you do then? Leave it to Scosche’s cellControl, a unique device that is installed in your vehicle to prevent calls and texts while a vehicle is in motion.

An untethered jailbreak means that a jailbroken device can retain its jailbreak exploit without having to be connected to a PC during a reboot, which is very important to get the most functionality out of the exploit. This is great news for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S users out there because it gives them a wider access to apps and customization tools that otherwise Apple’s device couldn’t access.

Did you know that only about 36% of the light produced by an OLED display is projected out while the rest is wasted? So what if we could find a way to harness this wasted energy to increase battery life on today’s smartphones? This is exactly what Arman Ahnood, a researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, is working on.

Apple has just announced its newest version of its iTunes u product at a press conference in New York City. The new iOS version brings users an interface that is very iBooks-esque in which they can access their iTunes U content.

The Motorola Xoom just got a whole of a lot more appealing thanks to a new OTA update to ICS. This update replaces the stock Honeycomb OS and comes just a week after Asus started its rollout of ICS to the Transformer Prime.